{"id":564398,"date":"2026-03-13T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-ranni-true-hero"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:58:32","slug":"elden-rings-ranni-is-the-true-hero-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-rings-ranni-is-the-true-hero-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring&#8217;s Ranni is the true hero of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/elden-rings-ranni-is-the-true-hero-of-the-game.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>FromSoftware<\/strong>&rsquo;s games have never been about heroes. The <strong>Demon&rsquo;s Souls<\/strong> and <strong>Dark Souls<\/strong> games have typically starred lowlifes rising up to overcome their fate &ndash; or in the case of <strong>Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice<\/strong>, a stoic Shinobi just tried to protect his master, all against backdrop of decaying worlds where everyone&rsquo;s at each other&rsquo;s throats.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elden Ring <\/strong>changes that, but not in the way you might think. You&rsquo;re still very much a nobody; a &ldquo;Tarnished&rdquo; out to seek glory by claiming the title of &ldquo;Elden Lord,&rdquo; battling your way through horrendous men and monsters alike. Some, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-margit-fell-omen-boss-fight\">Margit the Fell Omen<\/a>, outright tell you to &ldquo;put these foolish ambitions to rest,&rdquo; while others like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-sir-gideon-ofnir-all-knowing-boss-fight\">Sir Gideon Ofnir<\/a> stab you in the back to prevent your grand machinations, all viewing you as an unworthy hero. <\/p>\n<p>We have to look beyond the player character for the &ldquo;hero&rdquo; of Elden Ring, then. The shoulders that title falls upon belong to none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/guides\/elden-ring-how-to-complete-ranni-the-witchs-quest\">Ranni the Witch<\/a>, the mysterious blue-skinned being with several cohorts residing in a big fancy tower near Caria Manor. Yours and Ranni&rsquo;s journeys actually begin as mirroring each other: you&rsquo;re both recruits of the Two Fingers, but Ranni spurns being a pawn for The Fingers &ndash; which is where your journey with the Empyrean begins. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-ranni-true-hero\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-ranni-true-hero\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FromSoftware&rsquo;s games have never been about heroes. The Demon&rsquo;s Souls and Dark Souls games have typically starred lowlifes rising up to overcome their fate &ndash; or in the case of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, a stoic Shinobi just tried to protect his master, all against backdrop of decaying worlds where everyone&rsquo;s at each other&rsquo;s throats. Elden Ring changes that, but not in the way you might think. You&rsquo;re still very much a nobody; a &ldquo;Tarnished&rdquo; out to seek glory by claiming the title of &ldquo;Elden Lord,&rdquo; battling your way through horrendous men and monsters alike. Some, like Margit the Fell Omen, outright tell you to &ldquo;put these foolish ambitions to rest,&rdquo; while others like Sir Gideon Ofnir stab you in the back to prevent your&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-rings-ranni-is-the-true-hero-of-the-game\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,706,47,964,79,965,424,59,44,45,34,6810,60,4616],"class_list":["post-564398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-bandai-namco","tag-blockbuster","tag-elden-ring","tag-fantasy","tag-fromsoftware","tag-open-world","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-rpg","tag-story-rich","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elden Ring&#039;s Ranni is the true hero of the game | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FromSoftware&rsquo;s games have never been about heroes. 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